The artist spent a week installing 25' up in a tree using a suspension ladder. Instantly, upon completion, the city removed the piece due to neighborhood complaints that an artist had left garbage in their park.

These photos were thankfully taken by Debbie Hess who happened upon the scene moments before it was dismantled.

Transforming highway eyesore into a lesser judgmental and celebratory piece with styrofoam plates

Collaboration with Ron Fondaw

Serge Sorroko Gallery, New York City

Tower recreated her 1991 "Pretty Dot Piece" for the Serge Sorroko Gallery in 1998. All Paintings were made from reused clothing, car seats and objects.

Saw blade painting

Barn

Serge Sorroko Gallery, New York City

Western" inspired Installation. Artist had been a resident of the Ucross foundation in Wyoming. In response to the obsessively repetitious hilly surrounds, the artist collected any polka dotted material or circular objects to paint on from local Wyoming thrift shops (including clothing, furry toilet seat covers, sliced wood, car seats, saw-blades, hats and even eggs)

Mountain Snow Scene

Tee-pee dress painting

Wood pile

Detail showing Egg Box

"Pretty Dot Piece" Remake 1998, Serge Sorroko Gallery, New York, NY

TrojanOil on cowboy shirt

Alligator painting

Hey

Hay

Installation Detail

Hat painting

Red Barn

Felicity

Art Net

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"Tank", Night, San Antonio, TX

"Chio Torso"

"Black-Eyed Susans"Tracing Paper and Hefty Garbage Bags, 10'x40'x10'

One Main Street Gallery, Dumbo (Brooklyn), New York

Apparition1989Bubble Wrap, Scaffold Fence

Apparition was left on the Tijuana border to greet passersby

Recession Tree, 2010

"Potato Chip Torso"

"Potato Chip Torso" detail

15' x 4' x 4'

"Irish Spring"

Installing "Orb", New Haven, CT

TV Suck2006Ceramic

Life-sized cast TV with nipple

TV Suck2006Ceramic

Installation shot of "Rapunzel"

Tower wore a wig as she chain-sawed this sculpture in a vacant lot in the middle of a Hasidic neighborhood in Williamsburg's Southside. It is a tradition for Hasidic women to cut their hair and wear wigs upon matrimony. Neighborhood residents are well acquainted with the myth of Rapunzel.

Shown in Brooklyn, NY at the pioneering gallery, Epoche (First Gallery in Brooklyn) located under the Williamsburg bridge in the early nineties.

Detail of "Walk in the Woods"Vines, Left-over fabric from Jeffrey Deitch Project

Islip Museum, Long Island, NY

"What To Do With Old Boyfriends", Patrice Landau Gallery, New York, NY1994Oil paintings and sculpture

Head sprouting Fungi (After a decade in storage)

Necklace DetailsWood, rope and brass

Patrice Landau Gallery, New York, NY

"Necklace" with old boy friend pearls of wisdom

Patrice Landau Gallery, New York City

"Bottle Forest Two"

Funnel2009Wedding Dress and Mixed Media 4.5' x 5' x 5'

"Funnel" is an inside-out wedding gown with seams exposed. The waste-band functions as a giant funnel or squeeze-shoot through which a wedding party is strained. The piece may simply be read as a mulch-pile of matrimony.

Details of Funnel interior2009Mixed4.5' x 5' x 5'

Wedding gown with entire wedding party strained through waistband

"Burden of Art History", LaJolla, CA1988Mixed

Censorshippainted 55-gallon drums, metal

Rebuilt by Sheboygan Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

"Birth"Mixed

Caren Golden Gallery, New York City

"Sunflower Log Pile"

"Nice Day", NYCCollaboration with Andy Yoder

"Puma Rug", Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC

Carved Avocado log and swept Eucalyptus bark

"Tom Moving Out"

Painted portrait of Tower's boyfriend moving out on found object.

"Screen Series", Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

"Rug Series", Sibley Dome Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

"Rug Series", Photo of Paul Canfield and Carroll Todd helping with Tower's work